Attachment 1.65 Letter

This document pretains to SES-STA-20051207-01711 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2005120701711_471206

6404 Highland Drive Chevy Chase, MD 20815 U.S.A. Tel: +1—301—656—8969 Fax: +1—240—465—0086 December 12, 2005 RECEIVED Via HaAND DELIVERY DEC 1 2 2005 Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Eederal Communications Commissiofi Office of Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12"" Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: File No. SES—STA—20051207—01711 Dear Ms. Dortch: Pursuant to Section 1.65 of the Commission‘s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.65, the undersigned, on behalf of Vision Accomplished, Inc. d/b/a Transvision International, hereby updates the record of the above—referenced application for special temporary authority ("STA") to provide new and additional information of decisional significance to the Commission. The event for which this STA is required is the Sony Open PGA Golf Tournament in Hawaii taking place from January 9—15, 2005 in Honolulu (testing of the link is to take place in December 2005). Sony TV, a major television station in Japan, is one of the main sponsors of this event and has now contracted with Space Communications Corporation ("SCC") to use the SUPERBIRD—B2 satellite for the main feeder link transmissions back to Japan, and Vision Accomplished will provide the associated uplink earth station services. Thus, the interested parties have definitively concluded that the SUPERBIRD—B2 satellite provides the optimal capacity to utilize in the context of video coverage of this event. Vision Accomplished will conduct operations under the requested STA only to support video uplink services for this event, and will not request renewal of this STA. As you may know, the Sony Open in Hawaii has generated millions of dollars for the Hawaiian economy and raises money and awareness for some of Hawaii‘s most notable charitable causes. Indeed, the Sony Open in Hawaii has grown into the largest charity sporting event in the Hawaiian Islands, raising more than $5 million to ensure that women and children throughout Hawaii receive the critical health and social services they need. (See http://www.pgatour.com/info/company/story/9005293). Grant of the requested STA is critical because the timing of the event is established and grant of SCC‘s pending Petition to place the SUPERBIRD—B2 satellite on the Permitted List will not be granted in time to support the operations. Furthermore, substantial public benefits will result from video coverage of this charitable sporting event and there will be no public harm because the operations will take place for a limited period of time, be conducted in accordance

Matlene H. Dortch December 5, 2005 Page 2 with the Commission‘s two—degree spacing policies and are fully consistent will the international trade and telecommunications policy initiatives of the United States. In sum, there are extraordinary circumstances and substantial public interest benefits supporting grant of the requested STA, and the public interest would suffer by failure to grant the request in the unique circumstances of this case. If you require any additional information to rules favorably on this request, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned. Sincerely, /ZM /gd”mauzo Richard Barnett Telecomm: Strategies co: Fern Jarmulnek Scott Kotler Frank Peace


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